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INDUSTRY IN ZINDER. 
The cavalry of the marauders consists of some five 
thousand, and there are more than this number on 
foot. My informant says they will go near Kashna, 
perhaps to its very gates. So it seems the Sultan 
of Sakkatou, with all his power and his great cities, 
is unable to check, or apparently even to avenge, 
the depredations committed upon his most import- 
ant provinces. It is said that the product of this 
razzia will be some of the finest slaves in this part 
of Africa, many of them almost white. We are to 
leave here to-morrow. Inshallah ! It is too bad to 
be kept so long here, when Haj Beshir has sent 
orders for us to come immediately. 
7th. — The morning was cool ; thermometer at 
sunrise, 58°. I slept little, being angry at being 
kept here so long. I read Milton to divert my 
mind awhile from African subjects. 
There seems to be little industry in Zinder. 
The education of the greater part of the males is to 
fit them for razzias, and this must be considered as 
the principal cause of the unfeeling manner with 
which the blacks hereabouts look upon their cap- 
tive brethren. These captives are their means of 
livelihood ; they live on the products of the razzias, 
and, of course, the superior intellects with which 
they may come in contact countenance all their 
proceedings ; for the foreign merchants are equally 
interested with them in their inhuman expeditions. 
Africa is bled from all pores by her own children, 
seconded by the cupidity of strangers. 
